Google's next major Android release, Ice Cream Sandwich, will be out in the October-November timeframe, Eric Schmidt has revealed.
Speaking at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference earlier this month, Schmidt said: "We have a new operating system - which is known internally as Ice Cream Sandwich for some reason - which is being …

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4.0?

I have been under the impression, and thought it had been established for some time that ICS was going to be 2.4? I could of course be completely wrong, I have thought this for so long that I can't remember the source(s) now.

@DRendar

Ah yes, that old chestnut. Find an old WinMo device and install MS Voice Command. Chuck the result at Google with a note attached saying: "Like this, stupid.".

That should sort it. Nothing else I've tried comes anywhere near the sheer simplicity[1] and comprehensive recognition of esoteric names pronounced very badly that MSVC has. Runs perfectly on antique shit with one-lung processors and bugger all memory too. You'd never guess it was a MS product.

Trouble is, I'm stuck with bloody WinMo while waiting for someone else to get it right. Maybe MS would like to port VC to Android? Pretty please?

* wait for it to go to the server, get mangled by voice recognition software, get sent back

* Wonder as it translates my words into gibberish and tries to ring someone who doesn't exist.

The Nokia version didn't care about accents or how clearly you pronounced the words - as long as the two samples were fairly similar, you got what you wanted. Now you need a data connection and (presumably) a Californian accent.

'merkin perchance?

"My android phone keeps rather good time - it's synced to the GSM/3G time"

I'm guessing you're a 'merkin then. Android has a form of timesync in the shape of NITZ, which is what you are obviously using in the US. However in the UK, as in much of the world, we don't have NITZ.

Google developers don't seem to realise that NITZ is not available everywhere.

Nope, I'm British, with a UK phone. (The "GSM/3G" part of my reply might have indicated that I'm not American).

I was very impressed when I went to France-land, and it automagically updated the local time (but kept all my calendar entries pinned to BST). Until I realised that this was possible since the advent of GSM, and I'd been browbeaten by mediocrity to expect: